## Metadata - Author: [[Olga Berezovsky]] - Full Title:: The Analyst's New Competitive Advantage - Issue 339 - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://dataanalysis.substack.com/p/the-analysts-new-competitive-advantage?utm_source=chatgpt.com&utm_medium=email - Read date:: [[2026-11-06]] ## Highlights > when everyone can create dashboards, how do we decide which ones to trust? ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m6m75vh2ehwcjxwbgba5p274)) > **We’ve reduced the cost of creating analytics, but we haven’t reduced the cost of agreeing on what those analytics mean.** If anything, we may have increased it. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m6m77zchtswa118z4j5ejeac)) > **The problem isn’t that people create different dashboards. It’s when every dashboard becomes an equally authoritative source of truth.** > This is why I think data governance needs to evolve into analytics governance. It’s no longer enough to govern data models and metric definitions. We also need to govern how those metrics are used, interpreted, and presented. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m6pwdmp1cd6f8qq4jqmezb1w)) > analysts were also expected to spend considerable time communicating, persuading, and building agreement across teams. > He believes these are the skills that will survive AI: ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01m6pwgqrpayz8mtnfdknhbc54))